THE MENACE OF THE INVERSELY TOUTED UNIVERSAL DEPRIVATION

[continued from previous]

Some people talk on their cell phones. Some people take photos with their cell phones.

 

A white and blue animated bus drives past. The protestors, the singers, the pamphleteer and the black shirted butch crane their heads to look at it as it disappears from view. A surge of emotion. Everybody pumps their fists. Chants.

 

“Bahut hua!”

“Enough!”

“Release Dr. Dua!”

“This is a Satyagraha!”

“Dr. Dua must be released!”

“Resist, resist!”

“Down with the police! Down with the courts!”

“Inquilab Zindabad!”

 

13. INT. ROOM – DAY (film)

 

Gandhari is standing in the corner, where the room angles, breathing heavily. She looks angry.

 

14. EXT. BOUNDARY WALL OF BUNGALOW IN A POSH RESIDENTIAL LANE –

AFTERNOON (film + animation)

 

Tiny people are walking on the wall in a single file, carrying a thick rope.

 

TINY PEOPLE

(to each other)

Di-di-dah Dah-dit 4



TINY PEOPLE

(to each other)

Di-dit Dah-dah

 

15. EXT. COURT PREMISES – DAY (film)

 

The white and blue animated bus comes to a stop. DR. DUA, accompanied by POLICE CONSTABLES, steps off. He waves to the protestors and walks into the court building.

 

A few seconds later, Dr. Dua, accompanied by police constables, walks out of the building. He stops next to his supporters and folds his hands.

 

DR. DUA

Thanks for coming.

 

A police constable nudges him forward. He steps on to the bus. The bus starts moving. Dr. Dua waves out of the bus window. The last police constable climbs aboard and shuts the door.

 

The black shirted butch dashes into the FRAME. She runs alongside the bus.

 

BLACK SHIRTED BUTCH

Tell me what is happening.

 

DR. DUA

It’s been two years.

 

BLACK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

Tell me about your health.

 

As the bus moves off into the distance:

 

DR. DUA

I have coronary heart disease. I have blood pressure and coronary heart disease.

Cyclists, scooterists and cars fill the SCREEN.

 

16. Decapitated elephant part pulses across the FRAME (special effect)

 

17. EXT. DHARNA SITE – DAY (film)

 

We SEE several policemen and two or three protesters.

 

PAN ACROSS:

 

Vacant durries. A small pile of shoes on the ground.

 

The black shirted butch walks in with a YOUNG WOMAN IN PLAITS WEARING A SALWAR KAMEEZ. They remove their shoes.

 

INSERT – SUBTITLES - Have you seen my identical twin? (text)

 

ZOOM TO:

 

Ants marching in a line past the shoes.

 

18. INT. DRAWING ROOM – DAY (film)

 

Two VERY YOUNG CHILDREN are playing by themselves.

 

FIRST CHILD

Will you give me your cellphone? I want to play.

 

19. Decapitated elephant part flies across the FRAME (special effect)

 

20. SCREEN goes BLUE

 

DISSOLVE TO:

 

21. INT. PHOTOGRAPHER’S STUDIO – DAY (film)

 

Against a blue canvas backdrop, a PHOTOGRAPHER takes photos, using a tripod camera.

 

CUTAWAY TO:

- a middle-aged couple, man and woman;

- peeling plaster;

- the girl in plaits

 

INSERT – SUBTITLES - I confess to a lifelong dependence on pastels. What nature of identical twins are available? (text)

 

CUTAWAY TO:

- other backdrops stacked against the wall - the one right in front is painted with scenic snow-capped mountains;

- A BUTCH LOOKING WOMAN WEARING A CHECK SHIRT OVER A T-SHIRT, hair slicked back and grinning widely, and A YOUNG WOMAN WITH LONG STRAIGHT BLACK HAIR FALLING OVER HER SHOULDERS, smiling shyly.

 

The photographer clicks several shots of them.

 

Click.

Click.

Click.

Click.

 

CUTAWAY TO:

 

Mirror, where we SEE a reflection of the photographer changing the lens of his camera.

 

The two young women are clicked again, in more cutaway shots.

 

SOFT FOCUS

 

Click.

 

FISH-EYE DISTORTION

 

Click.

 

TAILORED OPTICAL DISTORTION

 

Click.

 

WARPED FOCUS

 

Click.

 

SUBJECTIVE CAMERA

 

Click.

 

The long haired girl starts giggling. The check shirted butch joins her. Their laughter grows louder and louder.

 

22. SCREEN goes BLUE and we HEAR abrupt silence.

Then:

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

You are so beautiful.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

You are so skinny.

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love your breasts.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love your body.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love laying claim to you.

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love what you do to me in bed.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love your anxieties and fears and inner conflicts.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love reassuring you.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love the clothes you wear.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love your self-abdication.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.

 

CHECK SHIRTED BUTCH (O.S.)

I love being a successful butch.

 

LONG HAIRED GIRL (O.S.)

Thank you.



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4. Morse code is easily learned. Short duration or long duration. [Note: Are you a Morse code amateur or a Morse code professional?] Encoded language allows the nothing personal. Morse code is expressive. Sometimes, it will turn out to be argumentative. The telepathic and the psychotherapeutic will not add up. This is the way it should be. Although the Standard International Morse Code was developed by Samuel Morse, it was Hannah Weiner who composed poems in Code. Morse code thinking allows not even one letter lost. It requires the communicators to be attentive. The old habit was to pay no attention to gaps or punctuation. This new generation of people, who are a subgroup of the populace, are changing that. The new generation is required to be modest yet contrarian.

 

 

 

 

 


apocryphaltext Vol. 4

 

poem/filmtext by monica mody